Climate Adaptation and Resilience Demonstrated In the MEDiterranean region

Description

CARDIMED will introduce a framework to build Climate Resilience in the Mediterranean bio geographical region, efficiently unifying individual efforts of regions and communities across different countries and continents. This will be achieved by deploying the digital infrastructure to harmonise the data collection and evaluation processes, providing open data to all the actors involved in the Nature-based Solutions (NBS) value chain and integrating crucial functions for Climate Resilience. Among these functions, smart digital tools for citizen participation and capacity building will supplement an ambitious multi-stakeholder engagement strategy, focused on knowledge translation and impact pathways. Furthermore, holistic modelling tools introducing the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus approach will provide comprehensive knowledge on the complex NBS interfaces that will decisively contribute to addressing socio-ecological challenges, along with issues of valuation and low-investment rate in NBS. These actions will be implemented across 9 demonstration sites, composed of 10 regions, 20 locations and 28 communities and comprising 47 NBS that directly relate to 83 interventions and supporting units that tackle climate change and circularity challenges. The consolidation of the demonstrating regions and communities will establish the CARDIMED Resilience Alliance that will function as the vehicle for expanding the network via up scaling the existing sites and adding new ones. The project includes 5 transferability cases, as well as an additional 10 that will be defined during the implementation. Through these actions, the CARDIMED Resilience Alliance will achieve at least 28 regions and 70 communities by 2030, will create 8000 jobs especially in the NBS sector, and will leverage over 450 M€ in climate investment.

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101112731

Status

Sep-01, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025

Funding Source

(EU) Horizon Europe

Role

Partner

Topic

Testing and demonstrating transformative solutions on climate resilience, mainstreaming nature based solutions in the systemic transformation

Countries

Consortium

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS (COORDINATOR),
51 Partners: RESEARCH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS, UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT, BIOAZUL, SL – CORE KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS AMKE – CORE IC CETAQUA, CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL AGUA, ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH, CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION ECOLOGICA Y APLICACIONES, ALCHEMIA-NOVA, RESEARCH & INNOVATION GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH, – LIBRA AI TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE IDIOTIKI KEFALAIOUCHIKI ETAIREIA, ALEA SRL,ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DE LA CONSTRUCCION REGION DE MURCIA, MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND ANTHROPOS,HYDRASPIS O.E, ELVALHALCOR HELLENIC COPPER AND ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY SA,INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE ARAGON – ITAINNOVA, PERIFEREIA STEREAS ELLADAS, GKONELAS K. – PATELIS M. O.E. – ReonHydor, UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE – UNIVPM, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA – UNIBO, IRIDRA SRL, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA – UNICT, MUNICIPALITY OF CATANIA, Regione Sicilia, SVI.MED. – CENTRO EUROMEDITERRANEO PER LO SVILUPPO SOSTENIBILE – ETS ,TECHNICAL UNIT OT THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN INFORMATION SYSTEM ON THE KNOW HOW IN THE WATER SECTOR, UNIVERSITE D’AIX MARSEILLE – AMU, MOREAU LAURE ,CONSEIL REGIONAL PROVENCE ALPES COTE D’AZUR – FUNDACION CIRCE CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION DE RECURSOS Y CONSUMOS ENERGETICOS FUNDACIO UNIVERSITARIA BALMES – UVIC-UCC, DEPARTAMENTO DE AGRICULTURA, GANADERIA Y MEDIO AMBIENTE – GOBIERNO DE ARAGON ,UNIVERSIDADE DE EVORA – UNIVERSIDADE DE EVORA,CIMAC – COMUNIDADE INTERMUNICIPAL DO ALENTEJO CENTRAL, EBOS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED,T.L. GARDENS OF THE FUTURE,LEFKOSIA MUNICIPALITY, IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, IZMIR METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY IZDOGA COMPANY, IZMIR BUYUKSEHIR BELEDIYESI ,DOGA DERNEGI, ISZU WATER AND SEWERAGE ADMINISTRATION, ENERGY AND WATER AGENCY, KARNTNER BETRIEBSANSIEDLUNGS- UND BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT M.B.H. – BABEG ,SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA DE ORNITOLOGIA SEO, AYUNTAMIENTO DE MURCIA, IRENA – ISTRIAN REGIONAL ENERGY AGENCY LTD